Scottie Scheffler is about to defend his Hero World Problem title.
Scheffler, the world No. 1 who received by three pictures at Albany final December, highlighted Tuesday’s preliminary subject announcement, which included 17 gamers and three spots to be decided.
Of these 17 gamers, six are first-timers: Ludvig Åberg, Sahith Theegala, Russell Henley, Robert MacIntyre, Aaron Rai and Matthieu Pavon.
Whereas three exemptions stay accessible, it’s unknown if event host Tiger Woods will play. Woods, who stated finally yr’s Hero that he deliberate to compete as soon as a month this yr (that didn’t occur as Woods logged 5 begins, together with 4 majors), was requested at The Open in July if he would tee it up in any respect earlier than the Hero and PNC Championship later in December. Woods responded, “I’m not going to play till then. I’m going to simply preserve getting bodily higher and preserve engaged on it. Hopefully simply come again for our – what’s it, our fifth main, the Father/Son, so trying ahead to it.”
However that was earlier than Woods underwent microdecompression surgical procedure on his again on Sept. 13. A timetable for Woods’ return to golf was not given.
This yr’s Hero is scheduled to be performed Dec. 5-8.
Here’s a take a look at the complete subject with world rating in parentheses:
Scottie Scheffler (1), U.S.
Ludvig Åberg (5), Sweden
Wyndham Clark (6), U.S.
Hideki Matsuyama (7), Japan
Patrick Cantlay (9), U.S.
Sahith Theegala (12), U.S.
Keegan Bradley (13), U.S.
Russell Henley (15), U.S.
Robert MacIntyre (16), Scotland
Sam Burns (17), U.S.
Brian Harman (19), U.S.
Sungjae Im (20), South Korea
Tony Finau (21), U.S.
Tom Kim (23), South Korea
Aaron Rai (24), England
Billy Horschel (25), U.S.
Matthieu Pavon (26), France
